From the Vault: Women’s Advocacy on Film – Harlan County USA

From the Vault: Women’s Advocacy on Film – Harlan County USA 

In celebration of NYWIFT’s 40th Anniversary, the Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) and UnionDocs present the film series From the Vault: Women’s Advocacy on Film which features nonfiction films that have shaped movements and provided perspectives on political, environmental, and human rights issues; and ideas around gender identity and roles, sexuality, health and family, all from a woman’s perspective. All films in the series were preserved by the WFPF.

PART 1 – RESIST, REFORM, REPEAT: WOMEN & ACTIVISM

PROGRAM 5: Sunday, February 25th, 2018, 7:30pm

Harlan County USA
Barbara Kopple (Director)
1976, 103 min.

Oscar-winning documentary film covering the “Brookside Strike”, an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company’s Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973. Harlan County USA was preserved as a Legacy project by the Women’s Film Preservation Fund, in association with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Special Guests

Barbara Kopple, Director
Susan Lazarus, Producer/Post Production Supervisor
Pamela Cruz (Moderator) Archives Strategist and Advocate

VENUE: UnionDocs, 322 Union Ave Brooklyn

PURCHASE TICKETS

This series is curated by
WFPF Co-Chair Kirsten Larvick,
with programming assistance from
Co-Chair Ann Deborah Levy and Raquel Salazar-Foster

Special Thanks
Christopher Allen and Jenny Miller
UnionDocs

The Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) is the only program in the world dedicated to preserving the cultural legacy of women in the industry through preserving films made by women. Founded in 1995 by NYWIFT in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), WFPF has preserved more than 130 American films, across all genres, in which women have played key creative roles. The WFPF is rewriting the film history books, by saving one moving picture at a time.

UnionDocs (UNDO) is a non-profit Center for Documentary Art that presents and produces pioneering records of reality. The organization brings together a diverse community of activist artists, experimental media-makers, dedicated journalists, big thinkers, and local partners. UnionDocs is on a search for urgent expressions of the human experience, practical perspectives on the world today, and compelling visions for the future.